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mapMDS

MapMDS is an overlay
application built on the existing information sources of the WS-MDS
(MDS 4.0). It is similar to the WebMDS that provides a web based
interface to query the various information providers of the MDS4.0.
MapMDS allows users to monitor the various active containers of a
grid and query the information providers and receive results on the
fly on the map. As the nodes are displayed according to their
physical location on a map, it becomes very simple to locate and
query ones node of interest. The current version of MapMDS is built
using the Google Maps API. Google Maps API is a pluggable javascript
that can be utilized by developers to develop applications that
feature geographical information like MapMDS.

ScreenShot

The active nodes
(containers) of the grid are displayed on the map. The following
screenshot shows the information that is displayed when the node is
clicked.

Future Work

One of the most important additions to be made is to provide the
users with the list of services running on a particular node
(together with the current info) and to provide the users the ability
to register services on a particular node on the map itself without
writing a separate web service or executing registration commands on
the command line.